Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vi
• Contents vii
• Foreword xiii
• Timeline of the Holocaust xv
• Map of Concentration Camps in Europe xxviii
• Preface xxix
• Introduction xxxiii
• I - Snapshots: Jewish Life Before the Holocaust 1
• Snapshots 2
• War Arrives in Lithuania 3
• A German Family 7
• Betrayal 11
• Parting 13
• II - The Destruction of a Society 15
• Herr B. 17
• A Kristallnacht Journey 18
• An Action Against the Jews 20
• Leaving Germany, Leaving Home 24
• Escape to England 26
• The Best-Laid Plans 28
• A Life-Defining Impression 30
• The Harbinger of What? 32
• The Beginning and the End 33
• A Family Gone, One by One 34
• The Abandonment of Mielec 36
• A Shtetl's Life is Ended 37
• What Ever Happened to the Jews of Skudvil? 40
• III - Ruthlessness as a System 43
• In the Dark 45
• Theresienstadt 47
• Dachau 50
• Auschwitz, 1944 55
• The Tenth Woman on Block Ten 56
• The Means to Survive 58
• The Gypsies 60
• Nazi Murderers 61
• How Many Made It? 63
• The Law in Lithuania 64
• Horrors of War 70
• IV - The Lottery of Death and Life 81
• German Roulette 83
• My Sister Rieke 84
• A Definition of Survival 86
• An Unforgettable Passover Seder 89
• Trying to Go Home 90
• Bar Mitzvah Boy 93
• The Skull with the Golden Braid 95
• The Concentration Camp Lottery 96
• The Girl with Wooden Shoes 101
• The Wagon 102
• The Child 103
• V - Disguise as a Way of Hiding 105
• In Constant Terror 107
• Posing as a Christian 114
• I Choose Life 116
• Lost Families 119
• Beyond Memory 121
• A Hidden Child in Greece 123
• VI - The Sustaining Power of Family Love 143
• The Promise 144
• A Mother's Courage 147
• Miracles 151
• A Dream of Milk 155
• In Praise of Manual Labor 156
• A Son in Deed 158
• The Psychologist 162
• VII - The Virtuous and the Vicious 163
• A Narrow Escaper 165
• The Kindness of Strangers 168
• A Saintly Person 170
• The Convent in Marseilles 173
• Among the Righteous 176
• The Killing Hunger 179
• Captain Zimmer 180
• The Volunteer Group 181
• Mazel 182
• The Farmer Kowarski 185
• A Surprise Package 187
• VIII - Disguise as a Way of Hiding 189
• Lithuanian Friends 191
• Unsung Heroes 199
• Friend or Enemy? 202
• Resist in Everything! 208
• IX - Emergence into Light 225
• The Golden Chain of Judaism 227
• Flight to Freedom 236
• The Last Hiding Place 243
• One Day War, the Next Day Not 245
• The Long Road After Liberation 247
• On the Way to Health 249
• An Ending and a Beginning 252
• The Tiny Flame 254
• X - The Aftermath: Remembering 257
• The Aftermath 258
• The Barber 260
• Kaleidoscope: Salonika, Greece, 1945 261
• The Sewing Basket 263
• Children from the Camps Going to England 265
• The Chief of the Gestapo 268
• Herr Schluemper 270
• The Miracle 272
• To Bear Witness About the Holocaust 274
• It Shall Not Be Forgotten nor Forgiven! 276
• Addendum - Seen with My Own Eyes: Stories by American Liberators 279
• The Photograph 281
• Germany, 1945: View from a Tank 283
• Gusen: A Nurse's Tale 286
• A Letter from Dachau 288
• I Saw Buchenwald 291
• Re-Entry 296
• Biographies of Survivor-Authors 298
• Biographies of Survivor-Authors 298
• Photographs of Liberator-Authors 336
• Author Index 342
• Story Index 343

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